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The current high interest rates in Vietnam are a great source of profit for banks, while businesses are facing numerous hurdles.

The Ho Chi Minh Health Department has revoked the business licenses of five Chinese clinics for violating examination and treatment regulations, said the department’s Inspectorate.

Republicans continue to call on President Obama and his campaign to give an apology for questioning Mitt Romney's role at Bain Capital. They won't be getting one.

Lao National Assembly Chairwoman Pani Yathotou has received in Vientiane a delegation from central Quang Ngai province led by Deputy Permanent Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Pham Minh Toan.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, laid out a warm welcome for Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba at the CPV Party Central Committee Headquarters.

A Soyuz rocket blasted off with an international crew of three toward the International Space Station on Sunday in a mission testing the reliability of Russia's crisis-prone space programme.

Thirteen passengers, including seven foreigners, were injured after a bus carrying 40 passengers overturned on a pass in Khanh Hoa province on July 13.

The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines plans to increase its flights on 16 domestic routes from July to August 5, announced the carrier on July 12.

A cure for AIDS remains a distant prospect but a host of drug treatments and other advances have fueled fresh hope.

Hanoi authorities say they will turn the city into a cultural centre by 2020 – the first of its kind in Vietnam.

Rock stars Bruce Springsteen and Sir Paul McCartney had the plug pulled on them after over-running at a concert in London's Hyde Park.

Hanoi will spend VND1.1 million billion to improve traffic infrastructure in the capital.

The limited land fund and the low budget have been cited as the main reasons that have hindered the construction of schools meeting national standards in the inner Hanoi city.

Hundreds of foreign-invested enterprises that need to have their business operations re-registered may be able to avoid dissolution or suspension.

The renowned Berliner Symphoniker makes its debut in Hanoi, marking the first time a full-scale orchestra from the West will perform in Vietnam at the invitation of a non-State entity.

More than 500 penguins have been found dead on beaches of Brazil's southern Rio Grande do Sul state, authorities said Friday.

Credit card giants Visa and MasterCard agreed to pay more than USD6 billion to millions of merchants which had sued them for allegedly fixing card-use fees.

Japan's Waseda University and the Hue Monuments Conservation Centre have completed work on a scaled down replica of Hue Citadel's Can Chanh Palace.

The Vietnamese delegation regrets that the 45th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting failed to issue its joint statement.